While the Antarctic region has experienced significant climatic changes over the Holocene, few high-resolution records have examined their effects on the local biota. In order to understand past ecol...

Recent advances in sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) are transforming palaeoecological research and offer new opportunities to study biodiversity change on islands. We assess the potential of sedaDNA ...

Recent advances in sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) are transforming palaeoecological research and offer new opportunities to study biodiversity change on islands. We assess the potential of sedaDNA ...

Entrevista amb RECERCAT

This (austral) summer, Mariana spent a month in Antarctica conducting fieldwork for her BIPOLAR Marie Skłodowska-Curie project. The aim of this project is to quantify the potential for adaptation to c...

Biogeography forms an important framework within the Temporal Ecology Lab (TEBLab), supporting research into how species distributions, environmental change, and human activities interact across long ...

Last month, Javi and Judit visited the school IE Rec Comtal (Barcelona) to run a hands‑on activity for high school students as part of the Ciència al Barri (Science in the neighbourhood) initiative. C...

This November CREAF celebrated an event called Vermut Temporal, co-organised by TEB Lab member Javier de la Casa. This events aim to gather different researchers from CREAF to present their work, fost...

This July, a CEAB team, including TEB Lab PhD student Elena Baños, embarked on a remarkable field expedition along the diverse South African coastline, as part of the ICOOP24 Project. Our mission: to ...

From April to July 2025, Franka Gaiser, a PhD candidate from the University of Bayreuth in Germany, stayed with the TEB Lab in Bellaterra, Barcelona. When Franka moved to the Universitat de Autònoma d...

Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’

This summer, Mariana spent two weeks in Finnish Lapland conducting fieldwork for her BIPOLAR Marie Skłodowska-Curie project. The aim of this project is to quantify the potential for adaptation to clim...

From April 28th to June 9th 2025, Sandra, Sergi, and Judit from TEB Lab returned to the Seychelles Islands for another exciting round of fieldwork. This time, they were joined by Jaume Pellicer, a bot...

Museum director says 138-year-old institution has worked to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’ It contains Egyptian mummies and is the only place outside Panama where tiny variable harlequin toads can be found. And now, the 138-year-old Manchester Museum has been named European Museum of the Year. The institution won one of the most prestigious museum prizes in the world with judges praising its approach to addressing its complex past and its extensive work with communities. Continue reading...

Scientific Reports - The network nature of language endangerment hotspots

From the 8th to the 10th of April 2025, the TEBLab team, together with two collaborators from Bayreuth University – Dr. Manuel Steinbauer and Franka Gaiser (PhD student) – headed to La Garrotxa for a ...

Every human action has a fingerprint on the ecosystems, whether it is direct or indirect. Given the intense use of land and human resources, the human fingerprint is also a geochemical fingerprint. Es...

Last year, I had the pleasure to attend an eDNA metabarcoding course in the Arctic University Museum of Norway, Tromsø.Environmental DNA (eDNA) is that which is obtained from environmental samples suc...

The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) has revolutionized biodiversity assessment by providing a rapid, cost-efficient, and non-invasive method to characterize ...

Part 3 of 3After our successful field campaigns, the focus shifts to the laboratory, where the real detective work begins. Each sediment core is sub-sampled centimeter by centimeter under stringent co...

Part 2 of 3Continuing our exploration of Spain's coastal regions, the TEMPOINVASIONS team ventured to the southern Atlantic coasts, focusing on the Bay of Cádiz and the island of Saltés in Huelva. In ...

Part 1 of 3Embarking on a journey to understand the historical dynamics of marine invasive species, the TEMPOINVASIONS team, co-led by Sandra Nogué and Marc Rius, has been diligently collecting sedime...

Bromeliads, bugs, and bacteriaThe Amazon rainforest is full of life. Rivers cut their way down from the Andes in the west of South America to the Atlantic in the east, trees laden with other plants to...

Islands of giantsThe TEB Lab team, in collaboration with IOTA, Seychelles Herbarium, SIF, and the University of Seychelles, embarked on an exciting field trip to Seychelles. Our journey took us across...

Frogs and toads – anurans – have profoundly modified skeletons and are among the most atypical of tetrapods...